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Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

JizzMaster — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:45:19 -0000

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Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

Sigur_ros100 — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:32:02 -0000

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Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

Byteme — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:17:25 -0000

LOL...

I read two more lines down where they say exactly what he said... Nintendo Zapper worked with the white boxes, 1 per target per frame...

And come to think about it the game really did blink like mad(e)!!!!

Anyone else remember duck hunt being uncomfortable as hell to play?

Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

Byteme — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:09:15 -0000

If it used a frame for each target the game would flicker like made, seek here for your answeres:

"Most light guns depend upon the way a TV display is actually drawn in one spot at a time--the dot being displayed scans from left to right very fast line by line from top to bottom."

"The light gun itself merely has a light sensor "aimed" directly in front. By detecting the timing of the signals it receives, the game console can deduce where it's pointed. (Some calibration is required due to differences in time delays depending upon the exact TV or CRT projector used.)"

http://arcadecontrols.com/A...

In effect, LCD and plasma are all out when it comes to using this tech.

Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

Brandon — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:53:46 -0000

He explained how it hits multiple targets. So for the first frame (30 frames per second), the system draws a black screen. Then, for the first target, a white box is drawn around it. In the next frame, the next target will have a white box drawn around, and the first target will just be black. So at any point, if the gun is pointing at one of these white boxes, it will register a hit. The nintendo knows which box is hit, because only one box is drawn on the screen at any given time...with all of this happening on the order of milliseconds

Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

Monica — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:18:11 -0000

I have Same question that Ricardo Posted... how does it works???!!!

Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

Ricardo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:10:48 -0000

didn't understand how can the gun differenciate between multiple targets. If you have two ducks on screen how the gun knows which duck am i shooting. Do they have different light intensity or something like that?

Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

mita — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:22:37 -0000

article help me so much
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Re: How does the Nintendo Light Gun work? (with video)

Mike Goysovich — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:40:13 -0000

This was an imformative article. Sweet!